Google takes top spot in branding rankers
The third annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands ranking issued by market research and consulting firm, Millward Brown, proves that brands are becoming...
Happy days return for Google
Google topped Wall Street expectations as it reported Q1 earnings, with revenues up 42% to 5.19 billion bucks and net income rose 30% to...
Clock continues to tick on XM/Sirius
The FCC is still in ponder mode as it considers the proposed merger of satellite audio services XM and Sirius. At least one Fool is wondering what the hold up might be, and the holiday elves are left without direction on manufacturing for the year-end rush.
Another farewell to Las Vegas
Each year as we head home from the NAB Show in Las Vegas we try to figure out what we’d learned from this convention that we didn’t know before we touched down at McCarran International Airport.
Univision applauded for community service
The public information activities of Hispanic multimedia giant Univision have gotten the attention of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), which...
Rough quarter for Media General
Television and newspaper are two of the more challenged sectors of the United States economy these days, and Media General is in both of...
Tough times for the Times
The New York Times Company was 335K poorer at the end of Q1, which was less than one cent per share. Operating earings, after...
DTV reception woes overstated?
Research group Centris has been sounding the alarm about potential reception problems once analog broadcast television is no longer available (4/14/08 RBR #73) . Broadcast engineers have consistently been disputing that claim, however. Here's one of them now: CW's Hal Protter.
Vegas gathering drew a crowd
As the NAB Show in Las Vegas wraps up today, the NAB announced that the event drew 105,259 attendees. Within that there were 28,310...
Television stocks nose upward
When the day began, you could by one share of each of the television stocks we follow for 75.52 - and with the proper...
Citadel, Radio One are a drag
It wasn't a particularly good day on Wall Street for radio, but then again it wasn't all that bad, except that Citadel seemed to...
Magazines fighting tough conditions
Advertising revenue is down in the consumer magazine business, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. Q1 2008 is said to have suffered a decrease...
MG's boardroom is a battlefield
Television/newspaper company Media General, headed by Stewart Bryan, has its own preferred candidates to sit on the corporate board.
It’s a multi-platform world
“Business as usual just doesn’t cut it anymore,” said Sheau Ng, NBC Universal VP of Consumer and Broadcast Technology, as he discussed the moves...
Pittman: Internet does not compete with radio and television
Bob Pittman may be known to most of the world as an Internet visionary, but he was a broadcaster first and he told the...